Kent Stuart, a successful photographer, returns to the small West Country resort of Redcliffe Bay and recalls the events of thirty years ago. As a young man, unofficially engaged to Esta Wallace, the town's pretty, intelligent Carnival Queen, Kent became involved with Lorna Morney-Sutcliffe, the provocatively beautiful wife of the local doctor. The passionate affair which followed sparked off a series of events culminating in scandal and tragedy.
Reliving the poast, Kent's Cheap Day return enables him to come to terms with his violent, haunting memories and to write a final, unexpected, chapter